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Retired s/police officer. First UK police officer stationed in Italy and Albania 1991/94. Worked with Judge Giovanni Falcone in UK and Italy. Author Scott's Forgotten Surgeon.
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"Three years on from the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the crowd that gathered in London was not just there to mourn but to demand action." Report from today's Ukraine Solidarity protest, which we were proud to support.

The result of the 2024 general election supersedes the spurious 37% Brexit vote in 2016 which was predicated on lies, dark money and misinformation.

You have to wonder whether he ever read the magazine he edited. Once again, the Andrew Neil chapter in How They Broke Britain sets the scene rather well…

Jeez. US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. Trump’s government are behaving like mobsters www.reuters.com/business/us-...

This is great news to reduce the need for air travel, though I hope the trains are competitively priced so that it makes it as cheap (if not cheaper) than air travel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watching people who used to bleat about accusations of racism choose between being blatantly racist or clutching their pearls at all the blatant racism they enabled is not as much fun as you might think. (See also Donald Trump & fascism.)

Please help us reach 60,000 signatures by Monday -https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317

Brilliant front page

The UK needs to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union. Always talking about a lack of money, it will give £42bn in tax, and a lack of growth it will give £250bn a year of that. It is stupidity not to do it.

Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans The auditors have paid another visit to Ben's Tees Valley Combined Authority. And guess what? The signals are flashing red again. Who knew? Peter Morris explains for @northeastbylines.co.uk northeastbylines.co.uk/business/aud...

DAILY STAR: Poodles: an apology #TomorrowsPapersToday

Londoners. Let's get a million of you outside the Russian Embassy at 1pm tomorrow. We are at war. Get off your arses! ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2025/01/21/d...

Great headline. Straight out of 'House of Cards'.

EXCLUSIVE: Explosive new book claims the KGB began grooming 'young and vain' Donald Trump 40 years ago by saving him from financial ruin and turned him into a Russian asset who gave Putin 'everything he wanted' as president www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Peace through strength. Strength in unity. #BrexitHasFailed

People need to get out of the mindset where every EU-UK negotiation is about "the UK giving the EU something" or "the EU giving us something". There are thousands of issues – all the way up to rejoining – where we become mutually better and stronger. It's not a contest, it's cooperation.

Liz Truss?

Those London by-elections keep on coming. @lewisbaston.bsky.social keeps on reporting: www.onlondon.co.uk/lewis-baston...

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

inews: 'It's personal': Rupert Murdoch's American newspapers turn against Trump again inews.co.uk/news/media/r...

🔴Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

The Art of the Deal - a big fat MAGA wank. youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

All I can say at this stage is… FINALLY! 💥

Ukraine represents truth. Russia represents lies. Every time we speak the truth, we support the war effort. Every time we reject lies, we help defeat the enemy. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

I won’t say this was a fun discussion given the geopolitical subject matter - but it was interesting as we tried to make sense of an epochal week. Have a listen ⬇️

Today's front page of The New York Post.

President Macron: "Russia is already aggressive towards the whole of Europe.It's started.It's got a strong army,it's attacking us on information,cyber,migration.I can mention other things.It's destabilizing us,it's attacking our interests in Africa,it's provoking us,testing us at sea,in the air"

OMG Putin is now pulling Trump's market testing trick Say something outrageous hoping that eventually it will come true

Nathan Gill, 51, ex UKIP, ex Brexit Party, and the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been charged with nine bribery offences after an investigation led by the Metropolitan police’s counter-terrorism command. It gets better apple.news/AZFUaz-S1REu...

This is Mzia Gabeshia, a 74-year-old solo protester at Martvili City Hall who is there every day regardless of weather conditions. She says she is fighting for political prisoners, for justice, and for accountability. #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Salome Kinkladze

‘Not what I expected’: Russian soldiers sent to North Korea for medical care

Vance reaffirms Ukraine stance and attacks migrants in CPAC speech

Please attend if you can - we need to show Putin, (and Trump for that matter), that we stand with Ukraine and our continent Europe. If you'd like to share the details below that'd be good too.

Since putting up this crowdfunding page, the Daily Mail has sent us, through their lawyers (RPC), two defamation threats. A few points about them. 🧵 goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

I see FuckACouch Vance has declared America will only be friends with countries with the same values so that’s Russia, maybe Belarus and North Korea. Knock yourselves out. Let’s kick America out of NATO.

‘Every single thing he says is lies.’ @mrjamesob.bsky.social says Trump’s comments on Zelenskyy are ‘without precedent in the free world’.

The definitions in this proposed Israeli law are so broad that "any journalist publishing an investigation that suggests a crime committed by IDF forces would also be at risk of imprisonment if the bill is passed." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Trump has undermined the post-war consensus. It has never been clearer that Britain's future lies with Europe.

“To show strength against Trump we must keep our other options open and start negotiations with the EU. 

 “We have called for a bespoke UK-EU customs union to ease trade barriers and help British businesses trade more freely.” @libdemdaisy.bsky.social

I wrote this in July for @bylinetimes.bsky.social Supplement. The Axis of fascist kleptocracy has taken shape even more quickly than I feared then. Trump is now working actively with Putin to destroy democracy and the rule of law in Europe. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fascism-re...

European stocks surprise investors by outpacing Wall Street since Donald Trump took office says headline in @FT. But it shouldn’t come as a surprise to FT readers since I predicted this in a column on New Year’s Eve… in the FT! Lots more market leading insight in my Substack (link in bio)

If Zelensky is on 4%, Donald Trump is on -8%. -8%, Donald Trump isn't it time to resign and have an election?